Category Archives: AJAX

SkyDrive app for Android phones designed to work best with Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) is also fully functional on Android 2.3 and above. "The new app for Android is similar to our mobile apps for Windows Phone and iOS and is a key part of making sure your SkyDrive files are accessible and shareable […]

Bing Maps moves beyond Silverlight and AJAX with the new native WPF Control, which enables you to build interactive tools for visualizing geographical data on the desktop."The two main alternatives to Bing Maps with WPF are Bing Maps AJAX in a Web application and Bing Maps Silverlight. I've used -- and like -- all three […]

Bing today released a new Bing Maps SDK for Metro style apps, which provides a set of controls to help you integrate mapping into your Windows Metro style apps.If you've tried to use the Bing Maps AJAX v7 control in a Metro style app using JavaScript, you've likely encountered issues (due to sandboxing of the […]

Google is now improving the GoogleBot capabilities to crawling and indexing comments in AJAX or JavaScript, such as Facebook comments or Disqus comments and others that are dynamically loaded via AJAX or JavaScript.In a blog post Google's Pawel Aleksander Fedorynski, Software Engineer, Indexing Team, and Maile Ohye, Developer Programs Tech Lead said, "With the growing […]

Google had on September 27, introduced the new Dynamic Views to its blogging platform Blogger.com. Since, then "over half a million blogs have selected Dynamic Views as their default template," informed Google Buzz.Today, the Blogger team has announced of adding the ability to customize Dynamic Views, in a blog post announcing the feature Bruce Polderman, […]

Launched today for Google's Blogger.com platform, "Dynamic Views," is built with the latest in web technology (AJAX, HTML5 and CSS3), is a unique browsing experience that makes it easier and faster for readers to explore blogs in interactive ways.The interactive layouts make it easier for readers to enjoy and discover your posts, loading 40 percent […]

Bing Maps released several updates and new features in the Bing Maps:Bing Maps REST Web ServicesSupport for Multiple Image FormatsPreviously a request for static images through the Imagery-API would have always returned results in the PNG-format. With the new release you now have the choice between PNG, JPG and GIF. While PNG provides the best […]

The Bing Maps WPF Control Beta is now available for free download on the Microsoft Download Center.What is WPF? "The Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) provides developers with a unified programming model for building rich Windows smart client user experiences that incorporate UI, media, and documents.""The WPF Control has everything you'd expect from a Bing Maps […]

Microsoft hopes you've had a chance to try the new version of HTML5-powered Windows Live SkyDrive that shipped a few weeks ago. You probably noticed that the performance of the Web experience has been dramatically improved and redesigned for simplicity. In a blog post on Thrusday July 14 on the Inside Windows Live, Windows Live […]